Chopwellgate Cottage, Rowlands Gill NE39 2AG

Detached house · Built before 1900 · 117 m² · Owner-occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

EC for £24,750 · £12,375 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£8611.6 yrs+4.5 pts
Heating controls£350 – £450£3112.8 yrs+1.6 pts · reaches D
Low energy lighting£100£426.6 yrs+0.2 pts
Wind turbine£1,500 – £4,000£7138.6 yrs+3.7 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£9350+ yrs+4.8 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£9,000 – £14,000£8050+ yrs+4.1 pts · reaches C

Grants verified 20 August 2026. Costs are the register’s indicative ranges. Savings are restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. Points per measure are estimated from 19.9 million certificates and rescaled to this home’s own certificate delta; the total is the register’s figure.

Running costs

£2,414
per year at grade E
£2,049
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £365 a year — a 1.5% annual return on £24,750.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2014, states £1,609 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

8 November 2011£345,000
23 February 2001£152,000
29 June 1998£148,000

Estimated today: £512,761 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Schools nearby

The schools’ own performance — Progress 8 shows value added, not just raw results.

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
High Spen Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Highfield Community Primary SchoolPrimary1.0 mi
St Joseph's Roman Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School, HighfieldPrimary1.0 mi
Thorp AcademySecondary3.3 miProgress 8 -0.12 · average (2023/24)
Prudhoe Community High SchoolSecondary3.4 miProgress 8 +0.08 · average (2023/24)
St Thomas More Catholic School, BlaydonSecondary3.5 miProgress 8 +0.05 · average (2023/24)

Schools from the DfE register, performance from the KS4 performance tables. Progress 8 is a GCSE measure, so primaries have none. Distance is straight-line from the postcode, not a catchment: admission is decided by the school, not by us.

Area context

Police-recorded crime for the wider neighbourhood, not this address. We grade homes, never neighbourhoods — so this is reported as a count, not a rating.

9.4
crimes a month
94
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 43% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01008183, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.